What would interest me is if they were written in Venetian dialect. Would
you know if that is the case?
Thank you,
Robert Colasacco
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> From: Dr. James S. Grubb [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 9:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: Italia/Turchia
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> Probably the most concentrated writing on Turkey, not
> surprisingly, came from Venetians. Two that come to mind are:
> Benedetto Ramberti, Libri tre delle cose de' Turchi, published in
> the collection Viaggi fatti da Venetia alla Tana, in Persia, in India et
> in Constantinopoli (Venice, 1543)
> Marco Guazzo, Le guerre di Mahometo gran Turco fatte con Venetiane
> (Venice, 1552)
> Published in this century, but written in the sixteenth, is Donato
> da Lezze, Historia turchescha (Bucharest, 1909)
>
> The best sixteenth sources for Turkey itself (as opposed to its
> foreign wars) are the reports of Venetian ambassadors and secretaries.
> There are extensive collections of these relazioni edited by Eugenio
> Alberi, Massimo Firpo, Arnaldi Segarizzi and Angelo Ventura. The reports
> from Constantinople are especially detailed.
>
> James Grubb
> History, UMBC
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Antonio Pagliaro wrote:
> > A graduate student asks me:
> > 1 For the titles of Italian works on Turkey published in the sixteenth
> century.
>
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